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KFMB-TV
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Brand CBS 8 (main channel)
The CW San Diego (8.2)
City of License San Diego, California
Market San Diego, California
Channel 8 digital
Subcarriers:
8.2 (The CW/My Network TV)
8.3 (Grit TV)
Formerly:
8 analog (1949-2009)
55 digital (2001-08)
7 digital (2008-09)
Network Affiliation Current: CBS
Formerly:
NBC (secondary, 1949–53)
ABC (secondary,1949–56)
DuMont (secondary, 1949–55)
Founded 1949
Company Tegna Media
President
Current Popular
Non-Network Shows
----Dr. Phil
Entertainment Tonight

KFMB-TV is the CBS affiliate for the San Diego, California market, broadcasting on digital channel 8. They were channel 8 on analog and had first broadcast digital on channel 55. They moved to channel 7 on low power (to keep from interfering with KABC in Los Angeles), then to channel 8 on full-power after shutting their analog signal off on February 17, 2009. Their subcarrier, on channel 8.2, airs the CW as primary and My Network TV as secondary. It previously aired Me-TV, which is now on a subchannel of KGTV/channel 10. A second subcarrier, on 8.3, airs the diginet Grit TV.

KFMB went on the air in 1949 with CBS as its primary affiliation. It has remained with CBS to this day. It had a secondary affiliation with NBC up to 1953 (when KFSD signed on), ABC to 1956 (when XETV switched from being an independent), and DuMont to 1955 (when that network went dark for good). KFMB's stations IDs early on usually took the form of a black "eight" ball from a billiard table. In the early 1960s, a cartoon pelican was employed for station IDs as it would enter singing the station's jingle "KFMB-TV channel 8..." (to the tune of Pop Goes The Weasel), get bonked on the head by the eight ball, then splutter "San Diego!" as it lay on the ground. Some of the station's local programs included SunUp (a news/topics show similar to NBC's The Today Show) and TV8 Bingo (play-at home game show--viewers picked up playing cards at participating outlets).

Regis Philbin is an alumnus of KFMB-TV. He had also worked at the NBC affiliate, which at the time was KOGO (now ABC station KGTV).

On May 31, 2017, KFMB took on affiliation with the CW on subchannel 8.2. The CW had been on XETV, which became a repeater for Canal 5 station XHGC-CD on the same day. Tegna, the broadcast media arm of Gannett, purchased KFMB-TV and radio from Midwest Television in February 2018. In September 2018, My Network TV moved from XHDTV-TDT/channel 49 to KFMB's first subcarrier where it is secondary to the CW. XHDTV now runs Milenio, a Mexico-based cable news outlet.

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KFMB's logo in 2008

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KFMB's logo in 1958, seen on a San Diego billboard.


Current CBS Prime-Time Schedule

Day 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00
Monday Entertainment Tonight The Insider The Neighborhood Poppa's House NCIS NCIS: Origins CBS 8 News at 11
Tuesday Entertainment Tonight The Insider FBI FBI
International
FBI
Most Wanted
CBS 8 News at 11
Wednesday Entertainment Tonight The Insider Survivor The Summit CBS 8 News at 11
Thursday Entertainment Tonight The Insider Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage Ghosts Matlock Elsbeth CBS 8 News at 11
Friday Entertainment Tonight The Insider S.W.A.T. Fire Country Blue Bloods CBS 8 News at 11
Saturday Entertainment Tonight Crimetime I Crimetime II 48 Hours CBS 8 News at 11
Sunday 60 Minutes Tracker The Equalizer various CBS 8 News at 11

Current CW Prime-Time Schedule (Ch. 8.2)

Day 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00
Monday News 8 at 7 on the CW 2 Broke Girls Superman & Lois Totally Funny Animals Totally Funny Kids News 8 at 10 on the CW Entertainment Tonight Seinfeld
Tuesday News 8 at 7 on the CW 2 Broke Girls WWE NXT News 8 at 10 on the CW Entertainment Tonight Seinfeld
Wednesday News 8 at 7 on the CW 2 Broke Girls Sullivan's Crossing Inside the NFL News 8 at 10 on the CW Entertainment Tonight Seinfeld
Thursday News 8 at 7 on the CW 2 Broke Girls Scrabble Trivial Pursuit News 8 at 10 on the CW Entertainment Tonight Seinfeld
Friday News 8 at 7 on the CW 2 Broke Girls Bob Hearts Abishola Bob Hearts Abishola Bob Hearts Abishola Bob Hearts Abishola News 8 at 10 on the CW Entertainment Tonight Seinfeld
Saturday 2 Broke Girls 2 Broke Girls American Ninja Warrior American Ninja Warrior Seinfeld Just For Laughs Gags Just For Laughs Gags
Sunday The CW Movie Seinfeld Just For Laughs Gags Just For Laughs Gags

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